Integration of Neurobiology into the Biology Curriculum

六个神经生理学工作站，能够细胞内和细胞外神经记录技术，将配备一个新的一学期的高级本科神经生物学课程。 学生将设计实验来阐明细胞和整合神经生物学中的重要现象，例如静息和动作电位的离子基础，感觉信息的编码，突触整合和突触的调制。拟议的设备还将用于改善普通生物学课程中神经生物学基本原理的教学，并扩大学生研究项目的机会范围。对这项建议的资助将使生物学研究的一个主要领域能够纳入课程，并弥补经过几年持续改进课程后仍然存在的唯一主要缺陷。

Six neurophysiology workstations, capable of both intracellular and extracellular neurorecording techniques, will equip a new one-semester upper-level undergraduate Neurobiology course. Students will design experiments to elucidate important phenomena in cellular and integrative neurobiology, such as the ionic bases of the resting and action potentials, coding of sensory information, synaptic integration, and modulation of synapses. The proposed equipment will also be used to improve teaching of elementary principles of neurobiology in the General Biology course, and to expand the range of opportunities for student research projects. Funding of this proposal will permit integration into the curriculum of a major field of biological inquiry, and remedy the only major deficiency that remains after several years of sustained curricular improvement.